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Yep, a reoccurring theme over the past decade or so. The arctic blasts of the past seem like an eternity away now. The east has seen multiple record cold waves in the past few years; pretty much equivalent to what Jan 1950 or '69 looked like in the west. The pendulum has to flip at some point...right?
I'm enjoying the Global Warming and possible el nino we are enjoying in the PNW....sorry Chicago...there's a reason I never wanted to move there (actually many reasons).
I've always thought it rather ironic that the branch of mathematics called Chaos Theory was created in analyzing things meteorological, yet meteorologists continue to try to "explain" weather observations with little consideration to the chaotic nature of the process....That's kinda like trying to explain quantum theory with analogies in deterministic mechanics- cause & effect.
Air masses wander about chaotically. Period....and it doesn't help any that chaotic ocean & solar processes are influential, unpredictable driving forces, constantly altering the "initial conditions' and "bifurcation points."...Ever watch a loose fire hose flailing about? Motion is restricted to the length of the hose and there's a general pseudo-cyclicity, but the pattern has no practical predictability except that it will remain within it's restricted space.
The weatherman's explanations are like the explanations given by the financial news guys: "The market fell on news that the axel fell off the ox cart delivering coffee beans in Nigeria today…" like all those little old widows who own all the stock are sitting around all day listening to their short wave radios for news from Africa so they can call their brokers.
Chicago is now -30c and for few days will be +12c. LOL
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off by couple days and too far east but not bad!
